I've been a single dad for about 6 years now. My wife died when our son was 12. It's not been an easy road for me, but I wouldn't trade it. My son and I have a very good relationship. Since my wifes death, I haven't really done any dating to speak of. I've been out a few times, but they were more friendship dates than anything else. Needless to say, sex has been pretty much non existent. I chose this lifestyle for a reason; I had a young teen aged son that had just gone through one of the greatest tragedies that a child can endure. With the loss of his mom, he needed love, but he also needed stability. I just didn't think it would be a good idea to have different women coming into and out of our life. I was afraid that it could lead to too many problems. He could possibly think I was just looking to replace his mom. Or he could get attached to a woman that I was dating, then if things didn't work out, he would have a sense of hurt that she wasn't coming around anymore. The best thing to do was to simply ignore dating all together, and just let it be the two of us while he was a teenager.
The plan worked pretty well if I do say so my self. Brian is now 18, getting ready to graduate high school, and a pretty well adjusted young man. Over the last several months he's even been giving me static about finding myself a girlfriend. He was ready to say these things to me because he had been dating his first steady girlfriend for the last several months.
I began to put some thought into getting back into the dating scene. It had been a long time, and I was pretty lonely for some female company. I was surprised to find that the whole concept of dating seemed a little scary. It had been 6 years, and I wasn't sure about how to "date" anymore. When he would mention it to me, I would usually just laugh it off saying that "I didn't have time", and "I had forgotten how to ask women out anyway."
Still, the thought always lingered in the back of my mind. I desperately wanted to hold a woman again. I wanted to feel the softness of her skin. I knew that before too long, I would be ready to try again.
All of this background leads me up to now. Graduation for Brian is just a few weeks away. His prom was this past weekend. About two weeks ago, he and his girlfriend broke up. He didn't seem too torn up about it, but he was scrambling to find a date for prom. Last Tuesday, he came home and told me that he was taking a girl that he works with to prom. Brian works part time in a record store, and she works there as well. Her name is Kelly. I've heard Brian talk about her before. She's a Junior in college, and apparently pretty hot. I asked him if this was the beginning of something between the two of them. He laughed and said it wasn't, they were just going as friends.
This being my only son, I paid for a limo for him and Kelly. My only condition was that they had to stop by here before Prom so I could get pictures. Also, I wanted to see if Kelly was as hot as I had heard!!
The limo arrived and Brian left to go pick up Kelly. About 45 minutes later they were back home. They came into the living room, and I was astonished by Kelly. She was stunning. She was about five foot six, with blonde hair with green eyes. She was wearing a white dress that accentuated every curve she had. I felt like a dirty old man, but I had an instant case of lust.
Brian introduced us, then I jumped into taking pictures. She was very nice, but somewhat quiet. Not a shy or demure type of quiet, but more of a knowing type of quiet. I found her quite intriguing on top of being beautiful.
After pictures were taken, I asked what their plans were afterwards. Brian said that they would be going to a party, and that he wouldn't be home until tomorrow.
After they had left, a part of me was envious of my son for being out with her. I tried to dismiss her from my thoughts but it wasn't possible. I kept telling myself "Hell, you're old enough to be her father." Then I would back that up with "You'll probably never see her again." I convinced myself that it was just the foolish thoughts of a man that has been too long without a woman. I moseyed off to bed at about 11:00 putting some serious thought into what I needed to do to get back into the dating scene.
I was sleeping soundly when I was awakened by a voice from downstairs.
"Hello. Is anyone here?"
I threw on some pants and a t-shirt and headed downstairs to see what was happening. Kelly was standing there alone.
"Mr. Kurtz, Brian is outside in the limo. Can you get him in the house?"
Oddly enough, the first words out of my mouth were "Call me Scott. Mr. Kurtz was my dad." As we started to walk out to the limo, I asked Kelly what had happened.
"He's okay, he's just really drunk." She said. "A bunch of guys snuck some booze into the prom, and Brian got a little carried away. We were supposed to go to a party after prom let out, but Brian was in pretty bad shape, so I decided it best to get him home." She then hesitated for a second and said "I hope you're not too mad at him. We were having a good time and he just drank a little too much."
"I'm not mad" I told her. "I would have been mad if he tried to drive or something like that."
We got to the limo and Brian was basically passed out in the back. The limo driver didn't look too happy with the situation as we lifted Brian from the seat. The driver and I held Brian between us as we walked up the sidewalk, and Kelly held the door open for us. We took him inside, and straight up to his bedroom. Not knowing what else to do, we just dumped him on his bed in his clothes. I thanked the driver for his help, and gave him a generous tip for all of his troubles as he was walking out the door.
As I closed the door and turned around, I noticed that Kelly was still standing there in the living room. "Shit, I'm sorry, I'll try and catch the driver and have him drop you off at your house." I opened the door, but the car was already pulling away.
"He's already gone" I said as I closed the door and turned back around. "I'll get my keys and take you home if you like."
She thought for a second, "If it's okay with you, I'll just crash here tonight. I still live with my parents and they might freak if an older man brings me home in the middle of the night. Besides, they aren't expecting me to be home until sometime tomorrow."
"Yeah, that's fine. You can sleep wherever you like. We don't have a guest room set up, but you can have my bed if you want it, I'll sleep on the couch."
"No, the couch is fine with me" she said.